T-600

T-600
File:T-600.jpg The "T-600" as seen in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
First appearance	The Terminator (mentioned) Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Last appearance	Terminator Salvation
Created by	Stan Winston
Portrayed by	Brian Steele Chris Gann

The T-600 is a line of fictional robots in the Terminator series. It can be considered a prototype to the more well-known T-800 terminator robots in the series.

Characteristics

The T-600 is humanoid in appearance, functioning primarily as either a soldier or an assassin in various situations. In addition, some T-600 units are covered in a sheet of rubber skin, meant to resemble that of a human. In the game Terminator: Salvation these T600s are referred to as "Skin Jobs". In the same game, T600s in general are given the nickname "The Walker". "Skin Jobs" are typically used by Skynet for espionage and infiltration purposes rather than direct combat. However, the T-600's importance in these roles may have diminished due to the development of more advanced terminator models such as the aforementioned T-800 and the T-1000.

Role in the series

In The Terminator, the T-600 series is briefly alluded to by Kyle Reese. Contrasting them with the T-800, he mentions that T-600s were easy to spot and discover due to their unconvincing rubber skin disguise, but this was not the case for the newer T-800s, which were surrounded by real flesh and living tissue, giving them a much more human appearance.

Their first physical appearance is in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles in a series of flashback scenes in the future.

The T-600 also appeared in Terminator Salvation. The T-600s in the film were designed by Stan Winston, Martin Laing, and ILM. McG has stated that "[we] wanted to achieve that bummer, rubbery skin, prosthetic look that cloaks an unrelenting machine with a singular focus of killing." They have been described as "the bigger, grimier, nastier version that preceded the T-800." Physically intimidating, T-600s are eight-feet tall and have a built-in Minigun, as opposed to the T-800, which has no attached weaponry and relies on utilizing peripheral items for combat. Images of the T-600 metal endoskeleton have since surfaced on the blog, io9.